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Tujjār al-Ṣūrīyah : al-mujtamaʻ al-ḥaḍarī wa-al-imbiriyālīyah fī janūb gharb al-Maghrib / taʾlīf Dānīyīl Shurūtir ; taʻrīb Khālid bin al-Ṣaghīr.

Title
Tujjār al-Ṣūrīyah : al-mujtamaʻ al-ḥaḍarī wa-al-imbiriyālīyah fī janūb gharb al-Maghrib / taʾlīf Dānīyīl Shurūtir ; taʻrīb Khālid bin al-Ṣaghīr.
Author
Schroeter, Daniel J.
Publication
al-Rabāṭ : Kullīyat al-Ādāb wa-al-ʻUlūm al-Insānīyah, 1997.

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Bin al-Ṣaghīr, Khālid, 1956-
Description
491 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
Essaouira was founded n 1764 by Sultan Sidi Muhammad b. Abdullah as his port for developing trade with Europe. Through a group of Jewish middlemen, it served as a link between Europe, Morocco and su-Saharan Africa. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries its fame rivalled Tripoli, Tunis and Algiers. Based on extensive untapped archive in Morocco, papers of Jewish merchant houses and consular records of Britain, France and the United States, this book gives an account of the city in its heyday. Essaouira was an opening to foreign penetration, but it was also important to the Moroccan government, because potentially dissident regions became tied to its commercial and political activities. The control of the sultans was undermined as foreign powers imposed liberal trade and intervened in Moroccan affairs. This study of a specific city and region throws light on the problems of traditional societies in the age of European economic imperialism.
Series Statement
Silsilat nuṣūṣ wa-aʻmāl mutarjamah ; 6
Uniform Title
  • Merchants of Essaouira. Arabic
  • Silsilat nuṣūṣ wa-aʻmāl mutarjamah ; 6.
Alternative Title
Merchants of Essaouira.
Subject
  • 1700-1899
  • Merchants > Morocco > Essaouira > History > 18th century
  • Merchants > Morocco > Essaouira > History > 19th century
  • Capitalism > Morocco > Essaouira > History > 18th century
  • Capitalism > Morocco > Essaouira > History > 19th century
  • Essaouira (Morocco) > Economic conditions
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Language (note)
  • Translation of: Merchants of Essaouira : urban society and imperialism in southwestern Morocco, 1844-1886.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
9981825972
OCLC
  • 39547584
  • SCSB-11459362
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library